happy new year all. lets hope 2017 delivers some decent widespread rainfall. with the dam at 14% we need all the help we can get. sadly the outlook isnt great, but hopefully some heavy storms this coming week might settle over the city.

Townsville and the whole district. The reality is that the presence of the monsoon trough on the surface chart is no guarantee of rain over any area. Sometimes it will be "active" and there'll be widespread rain, just as often you wouldn't know it was there.